About Our Seminar Series: The Duke Robotics Seminar Series brings together leading researchers, industry experts, and students to explore cutting-edge developments in robotics and autonomous systems. Our monthly seminars feature distinguished speakers from academia and industry, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange across the global robotics community. Each seminar provides a platform for presenting groundbreaking research, discussing emerging trends, and addressing the challenges facing the field of robotics. We welcome both internal Duke community members and external participants, creating a diverse environment for learning and networking. The series spans multiple domains including artificial intelligence, computer vision, mechanical design, control systems, swarm systems, bio-inspired robots, medical robots, and human-robot interaction, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of modern robotics research.
Duke Robotics Seminar Series
Current Seminar Series
Progress In Tubular Robot Structures for Surgery
University of Tennessee
Past Seminars
2026
How general are generalist robot policies? Data scaling, diagnostic tools, and memorization in VLAs
Stanford University
Autonomous and human-collaborative robotic manipulation
Northwestern University, Mechanical Engineering
2025
Modularity for Robot Manipulation
Carnegie Mellon University
Autonomous Robotic Surgery: Will Your Next Surgeon Run on Caffeine or 120V?
Johns Hopkins University
Leadership, Ethics, and Robotics & AI Technology: A Fireside Chat with Gen Brown
Surgineering Using Intelligent and Flexible Robotic Systems
University of Texas at Austin
2024
Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning for Robot Navigation and Manipulation
Sponsorship Opportunity
Duke Robotics offers sponsorship opportunities, if interested in sponsoring the seminar series, please reach out to the organizing committee: Boyuan Chen, Joanna Deaton, and Xianyi Cheng at: robotics@duke.edu.
Thank you to our Seminar Sponsors